‘Bolder’ Taliban steps up attacks

[varun]

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 19 — Taliban militants killed 10 policemen, including a police chief, in a province south of Kabul in the latest incident in a spate of violence that has claimed more than 90 lives in the past week, police said on Tuesday. The expanded attacks put more pressure than ever on a fragile U.S.-backed government struggling to rebuild a country following the ouster of the Islamic militia in late 2001.

...On Sunday, more than 200 suspected Taliban insurgents crossed the border from Pakistan and overran the police station in Paktia province’s Barmal district, killing eight officers, presidential spokesman Jawid Luddin said.
Afghan security forces killed 15 of the attackers, who later fled the area, said Paktika Gov. Mohammed Ali Jalali.

In a second assault later Sunday, another large group of attackers set fire to a police station at Tarway, a border village farther south, said provincial police chief Daulat Khan. Four officers were captured by the attackers, who retreated to Pakistan....

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Dubya's screwed up foreign policy...

its "Frontline Ally" Pakistan is supporting this Taliban that is going to kill more American soldiers in Afghanistan.:evilfrown:

[Mari333]

1. Every day it gets worse and worse

just what we KNEW would happened.
we marched, no one listened.

[molok555]

2. Will Pakistan become the new Cambodia?

Where's Air America when you need it??

[AndyTiedye]

3. With Friends like Pakistan

Who needs enemies?

[varun]

4. They (Pakistanis) are going to be

useful for Bush in Iraq. Since India refused to allow her soldiers to be used in Iraq, Dubya and co. have been busy coaxing and cajoling the Pakistanis to send their troops to Iraq.